Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying goalscorers


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The result was Delete. Note that a merge is a form of keep, not a form of delete, as some comments seem to suggest. DES (talk) 20:17, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying goalscorers

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Precedent states we delete lists of goalscorers. See here and here. It's list cruft, every county's goalscorers are listed in the pages for each group, alongside the group. There's also a list of top-scorers in 2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying, which covers any interest in who scored the most. HornetMike 18:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
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 * Strong delete per precedent. I'm not 100% sure that the precedent is correct, but I think consistency must carry the day in any borderline case. Yechiel Man  20:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment there is a difference between a scoring list for a complete season of a professional league and a scoring list for the major tournaments. The Premier League reference above should not be extended to cover a similar list of all scorers in the World Cup, or any of the confederation championships.  However, qualifications for those championships falls into a gray zone.  If my rough math is correct, the number of Euro qualifier matches (294) is not so different from the number of Premier League games (380) in a season.  Other confederations probably have smaller qualifying cycles. Neier 21:39, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Svetovid 22:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I think a major continental tournament should be categorized differently then a country league season. Also, in each qualifying group, we list results with goal scorers, so why not also have this available in an easily accessible sorted list format in a separate article.  If the list should be deleted, then it seems like you are also suggesting that group results pages should be deleted as well? // laughing man 22:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into relevant group qualifying articles. Simple scores alone do not stand up as a Wikipedia article, even if it is for qualifying for the 2nd biggest tournament in soccer.  However, the Euro 2008 group qualifying articles are not so large that the information can't go there. Resolute 13:35, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Well if the consensus is to not keep the article I also think a merge should be first verified before closing (deleting) this AfD. // laughing man 02:51, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * comment by closer Note that if a merge is done or to be done the article is not deleted, but is retained, usually as a redirect, for attribution & history. "Delete" and "Merge" are inconsistant outcomes, you can't do both. DES (talk) 20:17, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete let's not keep qualifying topscorers, that's pretty excessive. --Angelo 02:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per Resolute. The group articles already list each scorer in the match summary.  But, expanding the table at the bottom or listing all goal scorers alphabetically or by team in those articles seems to be a good way of presenting the info in a better way. Neier 08:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Too much detail. Qualifying's top scores, say the top 10, listed at the Qualifying article, looks fine. All goalscores is too much. - Nabla 14:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Redundant list. Lists of goalscorers are already found in articles related to thier individual groups.--Kylohk 15:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)


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